Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-30


news. Speak, swamps of the Chickahomiuy
and midnight lagoons, and tire-rafts Of the
Mississippi, and gun boats before Vicks
burg. and woods of Antietam, and tell tc
all the mountains and valleys and river:
and lakes of North and South, jeremiads
of war times that have never been sylla'
bled.
Beside that domestic perturbation and
homesickness of those days put
THE SWEET DOMEsTICITY or TODAY.
The only camp fire you now ever sit at Is
the one kindled in stove or furnace OF
hearth. Instead OF a half-ration Of salt
pork, repaSt luxuriant because partaken
OF Ivy loving family circle and in secret
condolences. q, now ] see who those let
ters were for, the letters you, the young
soldier, took 80 long in your tent to write,
and that You we're W particular TO put in
the mail without any one seeing you lest
you he teased by youI comrades. God
spared You TO get hack, and, though the
old people have gone, you have a home OF
your own construction, and you often con-
traSt thaSe awful absences and tilial
and brotherly and loyerly heart
breaks with your. present residence,
which is the dearest place you will find
this side of heaven. The place where your
children we've born is the place where you
want to die. To write the figures of lstcl
] set up four crystals, crystals of tears.
To write the figures 1887 | set up four
members of your household, figures of rosy
cheeks and fiaXen hair, if | can ret them
to stand still long enough.
Contrast also the religious opportunities
OF twenty years ago with now. Often OH
the march from Sunday morn till night,
or commanded by officers who considered
the names of God and Christ of no use ca
cept to swear by. Sometimes the drum.
head your pulpit and you standing in heat
or cold, all the surroundings OF military
life having tendency 10 make YOU reck-
less. No privacy for prayer or Bble-read-
ing. No sound OF church bells. Sabbaths
spent far away from the place where you
were brought up. Now, the choicest sane
tuaries, easy pew, all Christian surround
ings, the air full of God and Christ, and
heaven and doxology. Three mountains
lifting themselves into the holy light
Mount Sinai laundering its law, Mount
Calvary pleading the Sacrifice, Mount
Pisgah displaying the Promised Land.
CONTRAST OF NATIONAL CONDITION:
lS62, spending money, by the millions, in
devastation of property and life; lSS7, the
finances so reconstructed that all the stock
gamblers of Wall street combined cannot
make national panic; 1862, surgeons OF
the land setting broken bones, and ampu-
taling gangrecned limbs, and studying
gunshot fractures, and invcnting easy am
balances for the wounded and dying; lSS1, @,
surgeons giving their attentions to those in
casualty of agriculture, of commerce or
mechanical life, the rushing of the amhu-
lance through our streets, not suggesting
battle but quick relief of somc one
fallen in peaceful industries; 1862,
thirty-iivc million inhabitants in this land
l-S7, iifty-iivc millions; lNt5l, wheat, about
eighty million bushels; l-S7, the wheat
will I've about five hundred million bushels;
lS62, Pacific coast five weeks from the At
lantic: ls-7, for three reasons, Union Pa
Cilic, Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific,
only seven days across. Look ut the long
line of churches, universities, asylums and
houses with which during the last few
years this land has been decorated.
Living 80 oilers Of the North and S0nth,
take new and special ordination ut thus
SEASON of the year, To garland the sep.
ulchrrS of your fallen comrades. Nothing
is too good for their memories. Turn all
the private t0mbS and the national Gem.
ctcries into gardens. We dead Of Malvern
Hill, and Cold lIarbor, and MurlrecSboro,
aud Manassas Junction, and Cumberland
Gap, and Geld hospital, receive thes" floral
offerings OF the living soldiers.
Rnt
THEY SHALL COME AGAIN,
all the dead troops We sometimes talk
about earthly military reviews, such as
took place in Paris in the time of Marshal
Nry, in London in the time of Wellington,
and in our own land, hut what tame
things compared with the final review,
when all the armies shall paSs for divine
aud angelic inspection. St John says the
armies of heaven ride on white horses, and
don't know hut many Of the old cavalry
horses Of earthly battle that were wound.
ed and worn out in service, may have res.
direction. ID would only bc fair that,
raised up and ennObled, they would be
resurrectcl for the grand review OF the
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more power Ia resurrect their bodies than
Ia rrsnrrect ours. and should I've very
glad la ser them among the white bOrsa--
OF ApOcIlyptiC vision. Iark To the trum-
pet blast, the revcillc of the last ,Iudg-
mcnt They come up. All the
armies of all lands aud all
countries, on whichever side they
fought, whether for freedom or despOtsm,
for the right or the wrong. They come!
They come, Darius and Cyrus, and Sen
nacherih, and Joshua, and David. leading
forth the armies of ScTipturnl times; Han
nihal and Iiamilcar leading forth the
armies of the Carthageninn4; Victor Eman-
ucI and GarIbaldi leading on the armies Of
! the Italians: Tlmerlane and tiheDgiz X han
followed Ivy the armies Of Asia; Gustavus
AdoIphus, and Pt0lemy Philopater, and
Nerves, and Alexander and Semiramis
and Washington, leading battalion after
battalion. The dead American armies Of
| l77G and lSl:!, and one million Of Northern
and Southern dead in our civil war, they
come up. They pass on in review. The
SiX million fallen in SapOleOnic battles,
! the twelve million Germans fallen IN
the Thirty Years War, the fifteen mil
! lion fallen in The war under SesOstris
the twenty million fallen in the wars
Of Justinian, the twenty five million fallen
in Jewish wars, the eighty million fallen
IN the Crusade4', tn. IN millions fallen IN
the wars with Saracens and Turks the
thirty-hve billion men estimated 10 have
fallen in battle, enough, according 70 one
qtatistican, il they stood four abreast. 10
reach clear around the earth az times. But
We SHALL HAVE TINE
tO See them pass in review before the
throne Of Judgment, the cavalTymen, the
artiIlerymen, the spearmen, the infantry
men, the sharp-hOOters, the gnnncrs, the
sappers, the miners the anhers. the
sklrmishers, men Of all oolOrs, Of all
epaulets, Of all standards, Of all weaponry,
Of all countries. Let the earth be especi-
ally haIauoed N bear their tread. For
ward Forward Let the orchestra Of the
heavenly glllerieries play the grand
march, joined by all the ffers,
drummer and military hands that
ever sounded victory or defeat
at Eylau OF BOrodino, Marathon OF
Tbermopylae, Bunker Hill or Yorktown,
Il